Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D.
Practical Wisdom for Leaders is your fast-paced, forward-thinking guide to leadership. Join host Scott J. Allen as he engages with remarkable guests—from former world leaders and nonprofit innovators to renowned professors, CEOs, and authors. Each episode offers timely insights and actionable tips designed to help you lead with impact, grow personally and professionally, and make a meaningful difference in your corner of the world.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 295
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Dr. Randal Joy Thompson - Proleptic Leadership on the Commons
Dr. Randal Joy Thompson is a global wanderer who has been moving from country to country working in international development since the 1980s. She has worked and lived in India, Cameroo…
Dr. Ellen Burts-Cooper - Building (Virtual) Teams
Dr. Ellen Burts-Cooper is the senior managing partner of Improve Consulting and Training Group, a firm that provides personal and professional development training, coaching, and consul…
Sadhana Hall - Work On It Until You Become It
Sadhana Warty Hall’s commitment as both a teacher and practitioner of leadership reflects a deep dedication to justice and empowerment, both locally and globally. She has applied her ex…
Dr. Kelly Peterson - The Impact of Those Stories
Dr. Kelly Peterson is an industrial psychologist and consultant whose 25+ years of practice specialty includes a wide range of organizational development strategies and design solutions…
Wiley "Chip" Souba, MD - A Mountain With No Top
Wiley “Chip” Souba, MD is Professor of Surgery and Adjunct Professor of Medical Education at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Chip is recognized for his innovative approaches…
Sharna Fabiano - Lead & Follow
Sharna Fabiano is an internationally recognized tango artist. Over the course of her twenty-year dance career, she toured over a dozen countries, designed partner-based movement courses…
Dr. Elena Antonacopoulou - Phronesis
Dr. Elena Antonacopoulou is the founder and director of GNOSIS an international, interdisciplinary, and independent research and leadership development Institute. She has held full-tim…
Dr. Keith Grint - Mutiny and Leadership
Keith Grint has been Professor Emeritus at Warwick University since 2018. He spent 10 years working in various positions across a number of industry sectors before switching to an acade…
Dr. Ali Dachner & Dr. Erin E. Makarius - From Departing Employees to Loyal Alumni
Dr. Alison M. Dachner is an Associate Professor of Management at the Boler College of Business, John Carroll University. She earned her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Dr. Dachner…
Dr. Marcy Levy Shankman & Dr. Ralph Gigliotti - Leadership Assessments: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
About Dr. Marcy Levy Shankman
After five years as the Leadership Coach and Strategist for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, Marcy is now serving as the inaugural Chief Organiza…
Dr. Candace Brunette-Debassige - Undoing the Silence
Dr. Candace Brunette-Debassige is a Mushkego Cree iskwew scholar originally from Peetabeck Treaty 9 Territory. She is an Assistant Professor in Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership S…
Dr. Chellie Spiller - Spheres Not Squares
Dr. Chellie Spiller, (hapū Matawhaiti Iwitea, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa), is based in Auckland and is a professor at the University of Waikato Management School.
Chellie is a passionate …
Dr. Sean Hannah - Ethics is a Team Sport
Professor Sean Hannah, Colonel US Army (Ret) is an experienced senior leader, scholar, and leader development expert. He studies, teaches, and consults on exemplary leadership, leader d…
Helle Bank Jorgensen - Stewards of the Future
Helle Bank Jorgensen is the CEO of Competent Boards, which offers the global online ESG Competent Boards Certificate and Designation Program with a faculty of over 100 renowned internat…
Dr. Kat Schrier - We The Gamers
Dr. Kat Schrier is an Associate Professor, Director of the Play Innovation Lab, and Director of the Games and Emerging Media program at Marist College. She is the author of We the Gamer…
Jim Kouzes - Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership
Jim Kouzes is the co-author of the award-winning, best-selling book The Leadership Challenge and more than a dozen other books on leadership including the 2021 book Everyday People, Ext…
Beth Zemsky - Saying What's True to Us
Beth Zemsky MAEd, LICSW comes to her work out of her continued commitment to engage people in learning activities that move them to understand critical social and cultural issues. Build…
Dr. Robert Livingston - The Conversation
Dr. Robert Livingston is a social psychologist and one of the nation’s leading experts on the science underlying bias and racism in organizations. For two decades, he has served as a di…
Dr. Barbara Kellerman - Leaders Who Lust
Barbara Kellerman is the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Kellerman received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and three degrees fro…
Dr. Joanne Ciulla - The Power of Resentment
Dr. Joanne Ciulla is a professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers University. She is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics. Before joining Rutgers, …